TruffleShuffle

the cubs are in the american league now?

the chiefs have. the bears have shown how you can have a really good record without being a great team. win the turnover margin most of the time, have good special teams, play pretty good defense, don't suffer any injuries. Everything you just mentioned with the exception of the injuries is what makes a team great. And how have the Chiefs accomplished more? They're one game worse than the Bears while at the same time playing in an inferior division. did you read the original comment?

fwiw, ERA/FIP/xFIP aren't great stats for relievers.

the colts and cowboys were God-awful during the early manning and aikman years. any qb is going to suck if the players around them suck; if the guy is going to be good then build a good team around him so that he can succeed. it would be dumb to not draft a really good qb because the pieces around him suck right now.

if it weren't for the refs the bears probably would have won by 75 points. if it weren't for the fans, the eagles wouldn't be so unlikeable. says the most unlikeable sports fan in the history of the universe.

the chiefs have. the bears have shown how you can have a really good record without being a great team. win the turnover margin most of the time, have good special teams, play pretty good defense, don't suffer any injuries.

I'll chalk that up to Australia not having a good feed of the game, but the 5 point differential hardly told the story. All of Philly is laboring under the delusion that that game was actually close. that double-harris interception - a fortunate deflection by tommie - was a huge swing in the game. there's a good chance we would have been leading at halftime; instead we ended up down by 8 points. plus we were missing our best CB and another important player in the secondary, coincidentally cutler was able to throw at will. and the eagles settled for like 35 field goals. so lots of things favored the bears and still they were outgained and won by only 5 points. i guess if that counts as an overwhelming victory then so be it. The Bears went into prevent defense with about 5 minutes left in the third quarter, up 31-13. They basically allowed the Eagles anything they wanted offensively up the middle of the field under 20 yards with the idea that they wouldn't have enough time left to win if the Bears simply ran out the clock and didn't do anything stupid. They were right. sort of. they allowed the eagles a chance to get an onside kick with almost two minutes left. if the eagles hadn't kept settling for FG the bears strategy wouldn't have worked out either. and as i mentioned, that INT when we were going for a TD swung things drastically, plus the eagles missing their secondary was a big factor.

if it weren't for the refs the bears probably would have won by 75 points.

I'll chalk that up to Australia not having a good feed of the game, but the 5 point differential hardly told the story. All of Philly is laboring under the delusion that that game was actually close. that double-harris interception - a fortunate deflection by tommie - was a huge swing in the game. there's a good chance we would have been leading at halftime; instead we ended up down by 8 points. plus we were missing our best CB and another important player in the secondary, coincidentally cutler was able to throw at will. and the eagles settled for like 35 field goals. so lots of things favored the bears and still they were outgained and won by only 5 points. i guess if that counts as an overwhelming victory then so be it.

i guess when your point differential is like 30 points this year, a 5 point home win would qualify as embarrassing your opponent.

head to head isn't particularly fair as a tiebreaker between teams in separate divisions because the teams will play a maximum of one time, meaning that one team may get a big advantage (say, the bears getting the #2 overall seed, meaning a bye week and automatic second-round home game) because the schedule happened to give them a home game against the eagles. same argument for the eagles getting an advantage over the falcons.

So now a man who has had one season of a ERA+ of over 130, three years ago and has a WHIP consistently in the 1.3's is a ace of the caliber of cliff lee? LOL 14 mill for the rich man's Jason Marquis. But he's since he's considered funny it doesn't matter. do you actually understand what a #4 starter does, or what jason marquis' average season is like? are you this ignorant or are you just trolling to get a rise out of people? dempster's last three years vs marquis' last four years (i'm being generous to marquis by including his first year as a cub, when he was decent): W-L: dempster 43-27; marquis 40-40 ERA: dempster 3.49; marquis 4.58 ERA+: dempster 128; marquis 100 WHIP: dempster 1.278; marquis 1.431 BB/9 IP: dempster 3.3; marquis 3.6 K/9 IP: dempster 8.2; marquis 4.9 dempster has been about as good as cole hamels and maybe slightly worse than matt cain and roy oswalt over the past 3 years. yet you're calling him a rich man's jason marquis. are you starting to realize how dumb this is yet?

also it will help if you can keep playing teams that suffered epic meltdowns the previous week.

i wonder if inexplicably losing to another awful team will finally get norv turner fired, or if he has to go out and rape a dog or something.

A few inches for the Pats game and nothing to a dusting in the Vikes game. It was snowing all day in Minneapolis the day of the game. There might not have been a ton of snow on the field but it didn't help the condition of the field. hard crappy field hurts both teams. there were defenders falling down everywhere too. it will be snowing pretty hard in philly at gametime and the wind will be like 30 mph, passing the ball with any distance (which the eagles enjoy doing) will be near impossible.

how much snow was there during those games?

if anyone would like free money, bet the under in the eagles/vikings game. there's going to be a crapload of snow and wind.

neither has oklahoma.

this is ridiculous, 6 INTs in less than 3 quarters? nice work.

do the hawai'i quarterbacks understand that the players wearing the opposite-colored jerseys are not on their team? jeez.

Because he doesn't look like an ace. Aces don't have male pattern baldness, red goatees, or a sense of humor. #4's do That sound you just heard was Dempster walking Furcal again. oh he had a bad playoff game, i forgot that negates the 100 regular season starts and 600+ regular season innings he's pitched the last three years.

yeah i really thought bobby hill was going to be good. oops.

i thought joe namath coached that game and also played every position on the field.

or most of them just go to the nfl after this season and the suspensions don't matter.

i'm glad that guys like evan turner and marreese speights are getting DNP's for the sixers while guys like brand and iguodala are playing 40 minutes a night and nobodies such as tony battie and nocioni are logging significant minutes. lou williams is getting like 25 minutes a night and everyone knows he's not long for the team (with holliday the starter and future PG).